The freedom to mouth off
The American humorist opines on a free press, speaking truth to power and the benefits of offending people
ust how important are the rights to freedom of speech enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution? Well, one of the founding fathers of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, was opposed to the Bill of Rights. In fact, there was some general opposition to the Bill of Rights at the time. And looking back these hundreds of years, you’d think the Bill of Rights must have been opposed by the southern ...
